A Gender-Ideology True Believer, Mugged by Reality(quillette.com)
A review of Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell (2023). The gist of Thomas Sowell’s new work is that the flawed assumptions of social-justice activists are endangering Western societies. The entire social-justice narrative rests on misunderstandings of issues.(quillette.com)
Medications Can Help Keep Alcoholics Sober. Why Are They Being Ignored? Long-term alcohol abuse causes dysregulation in brain chemistry and neural function that can last for months or even years after the initial period of detoxification.(quillette.com)
When trans activism becomes government policy(quillette.com)
Richard Hanania shares his experience being attacked by the media and Antifa. It’s not about informing the reader, or trying to bring understanding about something happening in the world. The entire journalistic endeavor revolves around the goal of “unpersoning.”(quillette.com)
Podcast #219: When DEI ‘Training’ Becomes Harassment—A Tragic Canadian Case Study. Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks about diversity consultant Kike Ojo-Thompson, whose training methods became infamous following the recent suicide of Toronto educator Richard Bilkszto (1963-2023).(quillette.com)
The Pseudoscience of Critical Race Theory. Critical Race Theory is full of unfalsifiable arguments. If you’re white, you’re racist. Full stop. if you’re white and you reject this premise, that makes you even more racist. This is a logical fallacy known as a Kafka trap.(quillette.com)
Parental dysphoria is a new condition, growing in prevalence as the transgender trend that is indoctrinating our children picks up steam. Specifically, it’s the discomfort with your sense of self and view of reality that results from your child’s sudden announcement that he or she is transgender.(quillette.com)
Fantastical Beliefs in a Post-Christian Age. Looking at the Western world today, it seems that the religious impulse for those who do not accept established religious doctrines, and even for some Christians, is increasingly being channelled into the embrace of what I call “fantastical beliefs.”(quillette.com)
Peer Review as Shadow Cancelling. Fake reviews, vindictive editors, ignorant reviewers, “moderation” without reading, rejections for want of “a critical theory lens,” retention of submissions for a year without review, and defamation. Submissions are being rejected for their subjects or conclusions(quillette.com)
The biggest misogynists, the ones who really hate women, are contemporary progressive feminists. Harrington persuasively argues that much contemporary feminism has a hatred of women’s bodies and of motherhood in particular. The goal of feminism has been to defeminize women and emasculate men.(quillette.com)
Science is screwed - the refusal to accept the results of multiple studies and experiments because it doesn’t align with political beliefs of progressives.RACE(quillette.com)
NHL organizes trannie day: a man checks a woman into the boards resulting in a concussion, and she blamed herself for it happening. Reminds me of those stories about women in troubled relationships who tell friends they got their black eye from walking into a door.(quillette.com)
The full story of that trans ice hockey match and the uncomfortable truths it helped reinforce and the efforts progressives have gone to stop anyone finding out.TRANSGENDER(quillette.com)
Anyone who’s ever been a parent will recognize these actions: throwing food, spilling milk, smearing paint on the walls, sitting on the ground and refusing to move. Add in the inability to properly dispose of one’s bodily waste, and the pattern is complete. This is the behavior of toddlers.(quillette.com)
The evolution of Internet illness deception, particularly on sites like TikTok and Instagram, is inseparable from blossoming online subcultures that valorize disability. The problem is that some take it too far, glamorizing illness and making it seem interesting and desirable.(quillette.com)
A Marriage Lost. Lies, distortions, and selective memory are part of many disintegrating relationships. But the conflict style that Shannon describes here is unique, as gender theory allows Jamie to escalate even the most mundane disagreement into preposterous accusations of transphobic bigotry.(quillette.com)
In January 2016, I became President and CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA). I wrote an opinion piece, The Anti-Israel Trend You’ve Never Heard Of, in which I argued that the progressive doctrine of “intersectionality” was a danger to the Jewish community.(quillette.com)
The Ideological Refusal to Acknowledge Evolved Sex Differences(quillette.com)
Captiongate: How a Single Zoom Call Propelled Canada’s Greens Into Pronoun Meltdown. The interim leader felt the need to issue a lengthy statement detailing the allegedly devastating emotional effects that ensued when the pronoun descriptor “she/elle” appeared in an electronic caption.(quillette.com)
The Campus Trans Diktat: No Debate, No Dissent—And No Jokes. Some people ask why more academics don’t push back against ideologues on university campuses, or at least demand that their dogmas be debated. But this episode shows why that is often impossible.(quillette.com)
The Ideological Refusal to Acknowledge Evolved Sex Differences. The New York Times has announced that the maternal instinct is a “myth”—a social construct generated and upheld by the patriarchy to impel women to raise children and keep them out of the workforce.(quillette.com)